Two killed, 12 injured in Peshawar blast

PESHAWAR: Two persons were killed and 12 injured in an explosion followed by firing at Sulemankhel in the outskirts here on Monday, Geo News reported.

Police said that the bomb exploded near a hospital and hit a police mobile that had arrived for protecting a polio vaccination team to whom the vaccination materials were being distributed inside the hospital.

"It was an IED blast and the target was policemen," Peshawar SSP Operation Najeebur Rehman said, adding that the bomb went off just as officers reached the village to provide security to polio teams.

Bomb disposal squad and rescue teams arriving at the scene of incident shifted the injured to the hospital

Peshawar Lady Reading Hospital management confirmed that two bodies and over ten injured were brought to the hospital from Sulemankhel.